Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Tottenham]
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Prosecutions
Food & Drugs Act, 1955 S.2
Sale of bread containing a label. Fined £5-5s.0d. and £5.5s.0d. costs.
Food Hygiene Regulations, 1955
Smoking whilst handling fish. Fined £1.
Defective sink, no first aid materials, no lockers for clothing, inadequate washing facilities
and dirty floor. Fined £5.5s.0d. and £l.ls,0d. costs.
Condemned Food
Tinned Articles | |||
Baby Food | 88 | Milk and Cream | 385 |
Beverages | 70 | Preserves | 63 |
Fish | 254 | Rice | 3 |
Fish Paste | 6 | Soups | 527 |
Fruit and Fruit Pulp | 2058 | Tomatoes | 274 |
Fruit Juice | 148 | Tomato Products | 74 |
Meat (Processed) | 1265 | Vegetables | 1401 |
Other Articles of Food Condemned | |||
Apples | 1890 lbs. | Meat | 1553 lbs. 6 ozs. |
Butter | 2 lbs. 15 ozs. | Pickles | 43 jars |
Cheese | 26 lbs. | Preserves | 60 jars |
Dried Fruit | 934 lbs. | Salad Cream | 98 jars |
Fish | 35 lbs. | Sandwich Spread | 31 jars |
Ground Nut Flakes | 28 lbs. | Sauce | 38 bottles |
Honey | 34 jars | Walnuts | 165 lbs. |
Lard | 24 lbs. | Miscellaneous | 19 packets |
The Public Control Department of the Middlesex County Council has supplied the following table of information on food and drugs sampling in the Borough during 1959:-
Articles | Total Samples procured | Unsatisfactory |
---|---|---|
Milk (Various) | 111 | 1 |
Butter | 5 | - |
Bread | 2 | - |
Cakes | 19 | - |
Cheese | 5 | 1 |
Cooked Meat | 27 | 1 |
Cream | 5 | - |
Drugs | 25 | - |
Pish and Pish Products | 35 | 2 |
Fruit, Fresh and Canned | 24 | 5 |
Ice Cream | 18 | - |
Liver | 11 | - |
Margarine | 7 | - |
Meat and Meat Products | 60 | 1 |
Preserves | 8 | - |
Sausages etc. | 20 | 1 |
Slimming Products | 5 | - |
Spirits | 13 | - |
Sweets | 5 | - |
Vinegar | 12 | 1 |
Miscellaneous | 21 | - |
Totals | 438 | 1? |